Association of the Moroccan Initiative for Science and Thought: In pictures, the sighting of the Hilal Ramadan in Morocco is not proven

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On Monday evening, April 12, 2021 AD, it was the day of observing the Ramadan crescent 1442 AH in most countries of the world, and as a result of it, the monitoring process was carried out through which an official announcement of the beginning of the holy month was made. This year, the monitoring process was characterized according to this scenario:

- The Crescent Watch Committee in Australia, which monitors the crescent monthly and is followed by more than 100 people, announced that the sighting of the crescent has not been proven in various Australian cities, and the same thing in the Sultanate of Brunei and several committees in India, as well as the Sri Lankan Scholars Association, the Council of the Union of Scientists in South Africa, Nepal, Iran and many African countries .

As for Arabs, the Sultanate of Oman monitored the crescent through its 25 field committees, equipped with the latest telescopes and artificial intelligence technology to automatically photograph the crescent and as the first countries in which the sun sets and according to the reports of its committees announced that the sighting of the crescent was not officially proven, and for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: it watched the crescent this evening after it was excused yesterday according to A decision by the Saudi Supreme Court, where years ago it spelled observing the crescent of Ramadan for two days, and as usual, despite the inability of monitoring devices to photograph and identify the crescent, witnesses came from the same places and the same people (Sadir-Tamir) and it was not possible to see the crescent in the Al-Qassim Observatory and there are those who tried to photograph it with imaging technology Al-Nahari ccd from astronomers without results, to announce the Supreme Court according to a vague declaration that contradicted its previous formulas, from which some understood the entry of the month astronomically without regard to these witnesses, and following the official Saudi announcement that Tuesday, the first day of Ramadan, several countries announced that the sighting of the crescent was not proven by the Palestinian Astronomical Society And the various committees of the Sudanese Fiqh Academy, as well as the committees for monitoring the crescent in Algeria, and the failure to monitor the detection devices of the crescent of the Libyan Dar Al Iftaa. Saudi.

As for the Kingdom of Morocco, it observed the crescent as it does on a monthly basis through its committees, 278 official committees in the various territories of the Kingdom, with the presence of two just witnesses in each committee, all of which declared that the sighting of the crescent was not proven as was expected according to the Moroccan Hijri calendar and its 10 criteria, and the only evidence for that is this. Pictures.

In conclusion, the association reminds the necessity of not interfering with politics in monitoring the crescent, leaving the official committees and adopting the results of their investigation, and adding the height standard to the Umm al-Qura calendar to transform from a civil calendar to a Hijri calendar based on scientific foundations for seeing the crescent with the naked eye according to the coordinates of Makkah Al-Mukarramah.